At 04:37 PM 11 July 2002 -0700, M R wrote: >Spreading popularity of hollywood movies and pop songs >along with the popularity of US$, Mac, Coke, etc is >called Americanization. > >Similarly shall we call the spreading of better >standards, environment consciousness and metric system >as the Europeanization.
And some of you accuse Americans of being arrogant! With all due respect, Madan, this is a very self-centered, egotistical post. Europeans are hardly the only people using or promoting the metric system, and hardly deserve sole credit for its spread. In general (aside from the metric issue) European standards are no "better" than American ones -- there are some that are better, some that are not, and some that Americans have that Europeans don't, and vice versa. Aside from the metric issue, I challenge you to defend your claim here. And if you consider "environment[al] consciousness" to mean "believing the Litany of the environmental crisis hysterics regardless of scientific merit," then I will grant you that Europe leads the world in that -- a rather dubious accolade. To me, at least, "Europeanization" is nearly the equivalent of "socialization" and is hardly something of which to be proud. That is not to say I am proud of all "Americanization" -- I deplore some of it -- but McDonald's does not ask for laws forcing Europeans to buy Big Macs, whereas plenty of you folks would love to have laws forcing Americans to use the metric system. Jim Elwell, CAMS Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
